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You can also email or call us at 706-322-4500 to place the ad. Columbus, GA- Mr. Jackie Cooper, 63, of Columbus, GA passed Monday, September 17, 2018. Funeral service will be 1:00 p.m. EST, Monday, September 24, 2018 at New Hope Baptist Church in Holy Trinity, AL with Rev.
Dr. H.C. McGruder, pastor, Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday, September 23, 2018 from 1-8 p.m. EST according to Taylor Funeral Home, Inc.
Mr. Cooper was born December 24, 1954 in Phenix City, AL to the late Carrie Dell and the late Oscar Cooper Sr. He was a graduate of Central High School. He was employed with Char-Broil for over 40 years and a member of New Hope Baptist Church. Survivors include his two daughters; Janice Pitts and Hannah Alyssa Cooper; eight brothers, Oscar Cooper, (Arcola), Perry Couch, Rodney (Penny) Cooper, Daryl Cooper, Chris Cooper, Kevin Cooper, Ricky Cooper and Curtis Nelson; seven sisters, Betty Short, Elizabeth Couch, Rebecca Couch, Lenora (Jerry) Jackson, Denise Nelson, Gwen Nelson and Phyllis Cooper; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Please visit www. thetaylorfuneralhome.com to sign the online guest registry. Jackie Cooper December 24, 1954- September 17, 2018 Phenix City, ALABAMA- Vera Mae Johnston Redmond, 89, of Phenix City, AL passed away on Thursday, September 20, 2018 at Columbus Hospice House. A funeral service will be held at Vance-Brooks Funeral Home, 4048 Macon Road, Columbus, GA on Monday, September 24, 2018 beginning at 12:00 p.m. (EST) with Pastor Tony Dickerson Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.
The family will have a private burial at the Ladonia Baptist Church Cemetery. Vera was born on June 21, 1929 in Geneva County, AL to the late Lonnie and Lessie Ward. She was a very loving mother and grandmother. Vera enjoyed gardening, and, most of all, spending time with her family. She was employed for many years in the Admissions at the Medical Center in Columbus.
Vera attended Pinehurst Baptist and will be missed greatly by the congregation. Other than her parents, Vera is preceded in death by her past husbands, Ralph Redmond and Robert E. Johnston; daughter, Kathy Mae Gatlin; two brothers and one sister. Survivors include her daughter, Judith Wilks (Jerry); son, Robert Edward Johnston, Jr (Betty); sisters, Mae Scott, Marie Long (Huey), Connie Walters (Ken); grandchildren, Jayson Johnston (Laura), Frank Wilks (Teri), Jeff Wilks (Tara), Eddie Wilks (Melissa), Jonathan Redmond (Taylor); great-grandchildren, Raylon Johnston, Justin Wilks (Alicia), Corey Wilks (Bridget), Hannah Wilks, Gracie Wilks, J.D. Wilks, Haleigh Wilks; great-great- grandchildren, Oakley Wilks, Kylen Wilks.
Those so desiring to extend condolences may visit www. vancebrooksfuneralhome. net. Vera Mae Johnston Redmond June 21, 1929 September 20, 2018 Cusseta, GA- Mrs. Martina Cruz, 96, of Cusseta, GA, passed away on Tuesday, September 18, 2018 in the comfort of her home.
A private memorial ervice was held Friday at Columbus Hispanic Seventh Day Adventist Church, 7919 Hilldale Dr. Columbus, GA 31909, according to McMullen Funeral Home and Crematory, 3874 Gentian Blvd. Columbus, GA 31907. Mrs. Martina Cruz was born in Villalba, Puerto Rico, daughter of Celestino Santiago and Carmen Collazo.
She had two brothers, Aquilino Santiago Collazo, and Juango Santiago Collazo, who are deceased. Mrs. Martina Cruz came to the United States from Puerto Rico after marrying Francisco Cruz (Torres) in 1954 and was married for 60 years before her husband passed away on September 22, 1995. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great- grandmother. She was a virtuous women and her price was far above rubies (Proverbs She had children.
She is survived by one son, Angel L. Cruz (Matilde of Youngstown, OH and two daughters Maria M. Sierra (widow) and Evelyn of Cusseta, GA. Two deceased daughters are Rosaura and Maria S. She had 10 grandchildren Elizabeth Rutland (deceased), Linda Flores, Angel Cruz, Amy Cruz, Samuel Vazquez, Enrique Cruz, Esther M.
Sierra, Hayel Al-Hadid, Raul Vazquez (deceased) and Rebecca Vazquez (deceased). Many grandchildren, great- grandchildren and great- grandchildren. Bible Verse: Ecclesiastes 31:30 is deceitful, and beauty if vain, but a women that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised Martina Cruz October 22, 1921- September 18, 2018 Columbus, GA- Ruth Vaughn age 96, passed away 19 September at Spring Harbor, her home in Columbus, Ga. Burial will be Monday 24 September at 10 am Fort Main Post Cemetery with Rev. Cameron Mrs.
was born 15 November 1921, in Lair, KY. She worked in Civil Service at Fort Knox, KY, during WWII and would meet and marry Lester there following the war. Benning would eventually become home, where the couple would raise three sons. Mrs. enjoyed volunteering at the post Thrift Shop and as a nursing aide at Baker High School.
She was active in the Wives Club for more than 50 years. Ruth is survived by her three sons: Gene (Anne) of Marietta, Patrick (Christine) of Brussels, Belgium, and Tom (Gloria) of Athens, seven grand children: Cameron, Robert, Kevin, Erin, Kasey, Logan, and Margaret, and one great-grandson: Asher. Ruth Vaughn November 15, 1921- September 19, 2018 Ruby Baldwin Jackson (Little Lucy) Mommy! It has been two years since you transitioned to your Heavenly Home. We love miss you dearly. Your children, Evelyn, Brenda, Shirley, Violetta, Berlin In Memoriam Rocklin, CA- Lamar was born on October 9, 1935 in Columbus, Georgia to the late Thelmore Hudson Pitts and the late Marie Pace Pitts.
On Thursday September 6, 2018 Lamar passed away following injuries due to a fall. Lamar grew up in Columbus, Georgia, but attended school in Phenix City, Alabama, a bus ride across the Chattahoochee River. He was a 1954 graduate of Mother Mary Mission High School, a 1958 graduate of Morehouse College, and completed further studies at the University of Maryland. In 1955, Lamar met the love of his life, Eleanor Rose Minor, and they married in 1959 at Mother Mary Mission Church. To that union, two children were born: Kimberly Michelle and Jeffrey Lamar Pitts.
Lamar spent nine years in the U.S. Army, serving throughout the states as well as in Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium. Following the military, he joined IBM working in New York and California, retiring in 1992 as a Site Communication Manager. After retirement, Lamar and Eleanor returned to Georgia to be near his parents. In 2003, they returned to Northern California to be near their children and grandchildren.
At the time of his passing, Lamar and Eleanor resided in Rocklin, California. A kind, generous, and spiritual man who loved family dearly, Lamar was also a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and a former volunteer for the United Way and the Boy Scouts of America. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Minor Pitts, and their children Kimberly (Anthony Davis) Pitts-Davis, MD of San Jose, CA, and Jeffrey (Sonia) Pitts of Los Angeles, CA, sisters Jacqueline Pitts of Macon, GA, and Beverly (Jim) Watts of Hopewell Junction, NY, brother David (Brenda) Pitts of Columbus, Indiana, granddaughters Danielle and Lauren Davis, both of San Jose, CA, and Valerie (Brian) Jones of Washington, DC, niece Nichole Pitts of London, England, nephews Dexter Watts of Hopewell Junction, NY, Christopher Pitts of Kennesaw, GA, and Malcolm (Damara) Watts of Fayetteville, NC, as well as many grand nieces and grand nephews, cousins, and devoted friends, including Juanita Brown of Port Orange, FL. Thelmore Lamar Pitts October September 6, 2018 The National Hurricane Center Saturday named Tropical Storm Kirk after it developed quickly, only three hours after the cen- ter had said the storm was predicted to become only a tropical depression over the weekend. Kirk is expected to gain momentum and move westward the deep tropical Atlantic through Tuesday, with tropical storm force winds extending outward from its center up to 35 miles.
Kirk did not yet pose a threat to land. The two systems to the north, including one spawned by trailing energy as it rolled out to sea, are not likely to threaten the U.S. coast. HERALD Tropical Storm Kirk strengthens in Atlantic With new tariffs by the United States and China to go into effect Monday, there is no improvement in sight for relations be- tween the two nations. China on Saturday called off trade talks with U.S.
officials that had been planned for this week. U.S. State Depart- ment sanctions Thursday against defense agency and its director contributed to the deci- sion, people familiar with the matter said. Chinese products worth $200 billion will be sub- ject to new tariffs. Mean- while, $110 billion worth of goods from the U.S.
will become subject to Chinese tariffs around the same time. BLOOMBERG US-China trade talks break down as deadline nears Homeland Security officials have for the first time offered an explana- tion for a puzzling in- crease in the number of Guatemalan families showing up at the U.S. border this year seeking asylum. Rather than a spike in violence, the families appear to be fleeing a hunger crisis in Guatema- western highlands, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, citing U.N.
and USAID food insecurity data as well as the as- sessments. Years of mea- ger harvests, drought and the devastating effects of fungus on an industry that employs large numbers of rural Guatemalans is speeding up an exodus of families. POST Guatemalans fleeing hunger, US says Researchers are explor- ing whether a shipwreck off the coast of Rhode Island could be the vessel that 18th-century explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world. The Rhode Island Ma- rine Archaeology Project, which is leading the search effort, and the Australian National Mar- itime Museum identified the vessel.
one of 13 shipwrecks that have been known for years to be in the harbor near Newport, Rhode Island. Archaeologists met Fri- day to talk about their recent fieldwork. The Rhode Island Ma- rine Archaeology Project described the site as promising. ASSOCIATED PRESS Shipwreck could be Capt. James vessel WASHINGTON Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Ka- vanaugh of sexually as- saulting her when they were teenagers, said Sat- urday that she has accept- ed the Senate Judiciary Commit- re- quest to testify about her allegation next week while sig- naling that a final deal on her testi- mony has not been reached.
In an email sent to the committee at 2:17 p.m. Saturday, attorneys Debra Katz and Lisa Banks asked Senate Judiciary Commit- tee Chairman Charles R-Iowa, staff to set up a phone con- versation later Saturday to work out specifics. Ford accepts the request to provide her first-hand knowledge of Brett Kava- sexual misconduct next the lawyers wrote to the committee. many aspects of the proposal you provided via email, on (Friday) are fundamentally inconsistent with the promise of a fair, impartial investigation into her alle- gations, and we are dis- appointed with the leaks and the bullying that have tainted the process, we are hopeful that we can reach agreement on The email sent to re- porters shortly before the 2:30 p.m. deadline Grassley had set for a response specifically say whether Ford has agreed to appear on Wednesday, although that was the most recent offer that Grassley had made to her attorneys.
Yet legal team plans to continue to press for a Thursday hearing, accord- ing to a person familiar with the thinking. Michael Bromwich, a lawyer who has been representing former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, announced Sat- urday that he was resign- ing from his law firm, Robbins Russell, to join legal team. In an email to the staff sent just two min- utes after Ford responded to invitation to testify Bromwich said he was resigning because of objections within the firm to his representing Ford while employed at the company. Aides to Grassley did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But other Republicans working on confirmation were promptly skeptical of the latest response.
is an ask to contin- ue without committing to a senior White House official said. a clever way to push off the vote Monday without committing to appear Ford has alleged that while she and Kavanaugh were teenagers at a house party in the early 1980s, he drunkenly pinned her to a bed, groped her and put his hand over her mouth to stifle her screams as he tried to take off her clothes. Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegation. If a final agreement on the details of the hearing is reached, that would set the stage for a dramatic, sear- ing confrontation next week. Kavanaugh has cate- gorically denied allegation and says he wants to testify before the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee about the matter, and the committee and lawyers had been em- broiled in contentious ne- gotiations over the condi- tions of her testimony until Saturday afternoon.
Republicans said they would accommodate sever- al of requests, in- cluding ensuring that she had adequate security at the Capitol and that Kava- naugh would not be in the room when she speaks. But the GOP also declined her other requests, including that Kavanaugh testify first and that the committee subpoena Mark Judge a Kavanaugh friend who Ford says was present during the alleged incident and call other potential witnesses to the hearing. Christine Blasey Ford to testify to Senate panel BY SEUNGMIN KIM, SEAN SULLIVAN AND EMMA BROWN Washington Post Brett Kavanaugh TEHRAN, IRAN Gunmen riding motor- cycles opened fire on a military parade in south- western Iran on Saturday, killing more than 25 peo- ple, including several members of the Revolu- tionary Guards in a rare militant attack in the tightly controlled Islamic Republic. State media reported that at least 53 people were injured in the shoot- ing in Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan province, an oil-rich but impoverished region populated largely by Arabs who have long accused ethnic Persian majority of dis- crimination. The official IRNA news agency said 24 people were killed.
A lawmaker, Mojtaba Zulnour, said the death toll was 29. Several of the wounded were in critical condition, officials said. The Islamic State extre- mist group and an Iranian Arab separatist movement called the Ahwazi Demo- cratic Popular Front Sunni Muslim groups that oppose Shiite-led establishment claimed responsibility for the at- tack, believed to be the deadliest in Iran in nearly eight years. Amaq, a news agency affiliated with Islamic State, said several so- called inghimasi mil- itants who fight to the last bullet before blowing themselves up or getting killed attacked a ering of Iranian during a military parade. Arab separatists attack military parade in Iran BY SHASHANK BENGALI AND RAMIN MOSTAGHIM Los Angeles Times.
